The First Hire is built on other people's work - the careers pages of hundreds of companies. That privilege is conditional. Below is the full, plain-language version of what we do, what we refuse to do, and how to get a listing pulled.
Front door, never the back.
We crawl pages a company has chosen to expose to the open web - /careers, /jobs, public ATS boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable). Nothing behind a login, paywall, or robots.txt disallow.
An index entry, not a mirror.
We store the structured facts a job-seeker needs to decide whether to click through: title, company, location, remote flag, salary band, posted date. We do not warehouse the prose of the job description.
The company owns the canonical post.
Every row in the index is a pointer. The Apply button sends the visitor to the company's own posting - not a clone, not a re-host, not a reader-mode mirror. The traffic, the application, and the credit belong to the source.
People aren't line items.
Job posts often expose the hiring manager - name, photo, LinkedIn, direct email. We strip all of it. The First Hire lists roles, not the humans assigned to fill them.
One email, gone in a week.
If a company doesn't want to appear here, we don't argue. Send a note from a verifiable company domain and the listing - plus the crawl rule that produced it - comes down.
Email us from any address on your company domain. Tell us whether you'd like the entire domain skipped or just specific sub-paths. We confirm within two business days and the rows are gone within seven.